But Cleander, goaded on by Dexippus and angered on his own account also because he had been frightened, declared that he would sail away and issue a proclamation forbidding any city to receive them, on the ground that they were enemies. And at this time the LacedaemoniansCleander was Lacedaemonian harmost, or governor, of Byzantium (Xen. Anab. 6.1.13). held the hegemony over all the Greeks.